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Do any pilots outsude the US hand-fly the Airbus up to about 15,000', assuming that your airline Flt. Ops Chief Pilots/Fleet Captains are not afraid of your doing that?
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Yes, working for a large EU carrier, we do.
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How about with experienced pilots (with about 5,000 hours+) who already flew FMC aircraft such as the CRJ, Embraer, F-70 737-500, MD-88, B-757, etc?
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FMC (FMS) is one thing and may be very similar. Great difference will be the autoflight and flight control system as well as the ECAM
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Forgetting an employer's policies on manual flying, is the Airbus 320 etc just as easy to hand fly as on the 757 etc, regarding flying and non-flying ("handling") pilots' duties in a dense traffic environment?
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The aircraft is very easy to handfly (talking about 320 family and 340). It takes only a few hours to get used to the stick. For my opinion in approaches with gusty weather it may become a challenge.
regards
Last edited by catchup; 17th May 2005 at 08:40.